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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. In late 2010, after ten years at Citi, Heather Espinosa was promoted to managing director.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true. If you say we should, let’s do it.